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Straight From the Tap - Cleanest Cities for Drinking Water

tap waterLast summer, Reader's Digest published an article listing the 50 cleanest metropolitan cities in America. They scored cities based on air and water qualities, pollution by industrial toxics, and sanitation. There's no big surprise that Portland scored the highest for cleanliness overall, but what did surprise (me, at least), was that several cities that I would never have guessed, scored a perfect 50 for the quality of their tap water. Riverside? Las Vegas? The list of perfect scoring cities are below:

  • Buffalo, NY 
  • Columbus, OH
  • Denver, CO
  • Las Vegas, NV
  • Portland, OR
  • Riverside, CA
  • Sacramento, CA
  • Salt Lake City, UT 
  • San Diego, CA
  • San Francisco, CA
  • San Jose, CA

 

Filed Under: Vegetarian, Vegan, Non-GMO, Magazines, Raves & Reviews, Lists, Ingredients, Drink Recipes
Tags: clean water, CleanWater, drinking water, east coast, organic, tap water, water, water quality, WaterQuality, west coast

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Davediego

1-24-2006 @9:48PM Davediego said... San Diego is on that list? That has to be a joke
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Christine

1-25-2006 @1:12AM Christine said... I live in San Diego. Our tap water tasted awful for a few months this summer and drove me to bottled water. Supposedly it happens every year when they treat the water for algae? I'm glad, but surprised too.
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rosie

1-25-2006 @1:18AM rosie said... Columbus, Ohio was number 4? Wow - who woulda thunk it!
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Liz

1-25-2006 @10:46AM Liz said... Davediego, I second your disgust. I grew up there and when I finally tasted great tap water (Yes, there is such a thing! This happened to be in San Simeon) I realized how awful I'd had it all those years. My parents, who still live there, keep a carafe of purified water next to the sink in their bathroom to use when brushing their teeth.

Maybe SD tap water is "clean" but it tastes disgusting.
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TOM

1-25-2006 @3:39PM TOM said... Las Vegas? Wow. I lived there for 15 years and the water there is harder than Euclidean geometry.
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